Lot Essay
The present work depicts Black Rock, Connecticut.
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Sailboats off the Connecticut Shore
Details
Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904)
Sailboats off the Connecticut Shore
oil on canvas laid down on panel
9 x 12 1/8 in. (22.9 x 30.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1870-75.
Sailboats off the Connecticut Shore
oil on canvas laid down on panel
9 x 12 1/8 in. (22.9 x 30.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1870-75.
Provenance
[With]Adelson Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
[With]Anthony Olivo, Providence, Rhode Island.
Private collection, Middletown, Delaware.
[With]M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by 1976.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 21 June 1979, lot 253.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
[With]Anthony Olivo, Providence, Rhode Island.
Private collection, Middletown, Delaware.
[With]M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by 1976.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 21 June 1979, lot 253.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
T.E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade, New Haven, Connecticut, 1975, p. 247, no. 180, illustrated.
T.E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, Connecticut, 2000, p. 250, no. 191, illustrated.
T.E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, Connecticut, 2000, p. 250, no. 191, illustrated.
Exhibited
Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown Art Museum, American Paintings and Sculpture, April 21-October 20, 1985.
Vero Beach, Florida, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Ships and Shorelines: William Bradford and Nineteenth Century American Marine Painting, January 30-May 30, 2010.
Vero Beach, Florida, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Ships and Shorelines: William Bradford and Nineteenth Century American Marine Painting, January 30-May 30, 2010.